One thing I've yet to do....

[jpattillo]

There is one thing I still haven't done since surgery last Tuesday. Hopefully mirilax will be "productive."

 

[dfelder]

Try some prunes. I did colace and milk of magnesia, but prunes were the only thing that really worked.

 

[bbuck]

a cup of coffee did the trick for me,, needed some when I got home too

 

[Scott]

Yeah, I know exactly how you feel. I think I drank about 4 or 5 bottles of prune juice. They would not let me leave the hospital until I had a movement.

 

[sarahsunshine]

Other ideas - Magnesium (don't take too much or at the same time as warfarin), flax seed, bran muffins...

Are you dehydrated? I find that drinking a WHOLE LOT of water canget things going.

Good luck!

 

[Greg~]

Take prune juice and warm it in the microwave. Works like a champ

 

[Jkm7]

They brought me two cups of warm prune juice. Didn't work.
Some other white liquid. Didn't work
Finally a suppository ..... that worked. I could not go home until something worked.
(I imagine that must be the 'rule' for all of us.)
Good luck. Hopefully the prune juice did its thing by now.

 

[Boston Tiger]

I ate huge amounts of fruit in the hospital, because I immediately picked on how the nurses were really focused on that particular bodily function. I kept that up for the first week or two back home, since that was right when our strawberry crop was coming in.

 

[bocco]

I never had so many people ask me about having a bowel movement in my life. A lot of the pain meds will cause backup.

And as long as we already have to much information out there. Once you break that seal, look out.

 

[TheGymGuy]

Warm, almost hot PRUNE JUICE would do the trick. 16-22 oz. Make sure to drink while very warm, for some reason cold prune juice has less effect.

 

[jpattillo]

And we're back online!

 

[Richard Gardner]

Hooray!
I had a hernia repair (groin) last week and didn't go for a couple of days. Lots of apple cider seemed to work for me.

 

[Bill B]

Another landmark in your recovery.

 

[TheGymGuy]

And we're back online!

What did it? The time, like when its time there is no way of stopping it

 

[epstns]

Hope everything comes out OK for you (pun intended)!

I had lots of issues post-op. Eventually (a month after surgery) I was readmitted, needed a bottle of sparkling magnesium citrate. That WORKED. After that occasional issues were dealt with via Miralax, which worked but much more gently than the industrial strength mag citrate. Even now, 15 months post-op, I still have occasional problems. Such is life.

 

[jpattillo]

Mirilax and drinking lots of water...